Question

I have in my Web a GridView that use SqlDatasource to insert data into the rows of the gridview.

the grid have for example:
id
name
genre_id

now i have a table with songs and table with genres(genre_id,genre_name), and i want that in the grid will use genres_name and not the genres_id

This is the SqlDataSource for the GridView:

<asp:SqlDataSource ID="StationsDataSource" runat="server" 
        ConflictDetection="CompareAllValues" 
        ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:TvSQLManagerConnectionString %>" 
        SelectCommand="SELECT [id],[name],[genre] FROM songs ORDER BY [name]" 
</asp:SqlDataSource>

Answer 1

Use SQL Join to get data from Genre table as well.

Replace your Query in SelectCommand like this

SELECT S.ID,S.NAME.G.GENRE_NAME AS GENRE FROM SONGS S
INNER JOIN 
GENERES G ON S.GENRE=G.GENRE_ID